Speaker 1: What's up everybody. Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: As always, we are live on Amazon. After a long
Speaker 1: regular season, we have finally embarked on the time of
Speaker 1: year that is. I mean, it's a lot of things.
Speaker 1: It's the Warriors Imitational, it's fun time of year, it's
Speaker 1: the best time in basketball, like you name it. Like,
Speaker 1: we're there. It's playoff time. Man, the doves are in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I said, after a very long year, none
Speaker 1: of it matters, and it's time for the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: playing games are set. Our matchups in the play offs
Speaker 1: are set, with the exception of the winners of the
Speaker 1: playing games who will eventually play the one seed or
Speaker 1: the two seeds. Those are set. And man, I noticed
Speaker 1: something last night. I was watching coach Coach Malone. For
Speaker 1: those of you don't know, Coach Malone's my guy was
Speaker 1: one of our assistant coaches, my rookie year Stiller fan,
Speaker 1: always happy for Coach Mo. And I was watching him
Speaker 1: speak to the team yesterday and he was like, so, remember, fellas,
Speaker 1: we don't find out who we play until Friday. Somehow
Speaker 1: in all of this, the number one seed gets screwed.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, today's Monday. We knew yesterday that we're
Speaker 1: playing Sacramento on Saturday. Sacramento knew they're playing US on
Speaker 1: Saturday yesterday. Somehow the one seed gets the short end
Speaker 1: of the stick. They will find out who they play
Speaker 1: Friday to play Sunday, probably an early game. Now you
Speaker 1: can say, well, they can prepare for both teams, like yeah,
Speaker 1: but like still to be able to lock in and
Speaker 1: focus on one team the short the one seed definitely
Speaker 1: gets the short end of the stick there and saying
Speaker 1: that we will know later this week all of the matchups.
Speaker 1: But for right now we can get into some of
Speaker 1: the things. But first, before we get into some of
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Speaker 1: Jaden McDaniels broke his hand punching the wall and frustration.
Speaker 1: Now what I will tell you is this, I have.
Speaker 1: I am someone who's dealt with an extreme amount of
Speaker 1: frustration in games, getting kicked out of games, you name it.
Speaker 1: I'm not punching the wall because when you punched that
Speaker 1: wall on, one of them is going to move. Like
Speaker 1: if you study force. I took physics, if you study
Speaker 1: force like head on collision like that, one of those
Speaker 1: things have to move. And I'm sorry to tell you,
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna be the wall. Like. The wall
Speaker 1: is probably not gonna move. So therefore something your hand, slashed,
Speaker 1: something in your hand, it's gonna move. And unfortunately, Jaden
Speaker 1: McDaniels broke his hand punching the wall. Huge blow to
Speaker 1: the timber wheels. Jaden McDaniels is an incredible defender. He's
Speaker 1: continued to grow on offense, good slasher, three point shot
Speaker 1: is getting more consistent. But most importantly, he just a dog,
Speaker 1: a dog. Like, yeah, the defense is great, man, He's
Speaker 1: six nine, incredible wingspan, can keep up with any guard.
Speaker 1: Like that's great. But he just a dog. And like,
Speaker 1: that's what I can appreciate about ja Jaden McDaniels, is
Speaker 1: he like, aside from any skill, aside from any of that,
Speaker 1: he a dog. And you pair that dog next to
Speaker 1: the big dog that is Anthony Edwards. You got yourself
Speaker 1: a solid young couple guys that you can really build around.
Speaker 1: And so they're going to miss him, and that's extremely unfortunate.
Speaker 1: As a young young guy let his emotions get the
Speaker 1: best of him. We all do at times, and I
Speaker 1: just hate to see that happen. You know, you play
Speaker 1: all these all this entire season to get to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and here we are embarking on the playoffs in the
Speaker 1: game before he gets hurt. The nine basketball injury that
Speaker 1: bothers me is unfortunate because I like to see young
Speaker 1: guys shine. Here is one young guy that was shine
Speaker 1: in this league for a long time, and he'll learn
Speaker 1: from his mistake. He won't do that again. But it's
Speaker 1: you know, it sucks. And also you see Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: in the way that he's playing. Anthony Edwards is one
Speaker 1: of them guys man, and we'll talk a little more
Speaker 1: about him as we get into the play and match up,
Speaker 1: but before we do, want to talk about Jade mcdanis. First,
Speaker 1: had a lot of respect for the young fella and
Speaker 1: like I said, it's unfortunate to see um, but I'm
Speaker 1: wishing them to speedy recovery and that's just going to
Speaker 1: be a big hit to the timber Wolves. Other news
Speaker 1: with the timber Wolves. Insecurity is always loud. That's why
Speaker 1: you should be careful when you start speaking out on
Speaker 1: things that you don't really know. You know, you start
Speaker 1: speaking out, um tweeting stuff, sneak dicing for for all
Speaker 1: of you out there, I tweeted that yesterday. For those
Speaker 1: of you that don't know when I when I had
Speaker 1: an incident earlier this year, Rudy Gonna Bear tweeted insecurity
Speaker 1: is always loud. Um, it's just kind of a little
Speaker 1: hard to say that when you don't really no circumstance,
Speaker 1: But if that flows your boat. Quite frankly, not really
Speaker 1: a big sneak dicer myself. Actually, you know, I was
Speaker 1: being very facetious yesterday when I tweeted the same thing.
Speaker 1: I actually almost added him, just because I'm not a
Speaker 1: sneak disher. But as I was doing the tweet, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I make it's actually better if I don't add him,
Speaker 1: because it's just the same exact tweet he tweeted, changed
Speaker 1: the date, and so I decided not to. But but
Speaker 1: by all means no, and understand that I'm not a
Speaker 1: sneak disher at all. That's not what I do. I
Speaker 1: will speak on it. And so yes, when I tweeted that,
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know, I was one
Speaker 1: hundred percent talking about Rudy Gobert and his incident yesterday
Speaker 1: with Kyle Anderson on the bench. Let's get into that. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this leaking stuff is a thing, and someone leaked an
Speaker 1: audio recording of Kyle Anderson in the locker room, and
Speaker 1: in short, Kyle Anderson was saying, you guys got to
Speaker 1: make some decisions this summer like, y'all, y'all baby this dude,
Speaker 1: y'all like stop, like some decisions need to be made
Speaker 1: this summer. I'm not on that team. That's not really
Speaker 1: for me, but it's interesting and you had to, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone kind of had these questions when the trade happened
Speaker 1: of how is that going to work? And you know,
Speaker 1: you clog up to paint for Anthony Edwards, a young star,
Speaker 1: and so on and so forth. Last night it probably
Speaker 1: reared his ugly head. And yeah, Kyle Anderson and Rudy
Speaker 1: Gobert had some words on the bench. Kyle Anderson said
Speaker 1: choice word, Rudy Gobert stepped over, tapped him on the chest,
Speaker 1: and then he was sent home. He was sent home,
Speaker 1: and we also now know he's also suspended for tomorrow's
Speaker 1: playing game versus the Lakers. So unfortunate to see all
Speaker 1: of those things happen at this time where you had
Speaker 1: nas Reads get nas Read get hurt Um a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. So he's out, you got Rudy Gobert out,
Speaker 1: got Jada McDaniels out, and you're going into playing game
Speaker 1: with one of the hottest teams in the NBA, that
Speaker 1: is the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles. Tough, tough,
Speaker 1: tough circumstance, tough circumstance, um, as far as the top
Speaker 1: on the chess goes um, I have my sentiments about it.
Speaker 1: There are just some things, and you know we by
Speaker 1: now you've seen the zoom in on Kyle Anderson and
Speaker 1: what he said. If you paid any attention, you've seen
Speaker 1: all of it. You've heard the league you quite frankly,
Speaker 1: there are just some words as as men, you just
Speaker 1: don't say the men um, you know, and if you
Speaker 1: do choose to say those words, you also do have
Speaker 1: to be ready to do deal with whatever comes with that,
Speaker 1: because that is a decision that you are making when
Speaker 1: you decide to disrespect someone, as you're essentially accepting what
Speaker 1: comes with that. So when I saw the choice words
Speaker 1: that is the bitch word Kyle Anderson using towards Rudy Gobert,
Speaker 1: you do have to be ready with what comes with that.
Speaker 1: Like you're just not allowed to just disrespect guys and
Speaker 1: say what you want to say, especially in competitive environments
Speaker 1: like you really competitive emotions are running high, especially in
Speaker 1: that situation you're trying to fight for a play in
Speaker 1: seeding there's some things that you just don't say the
Speaker 1: grown man. Quite frankly, Kyle Anderson uttered some words to
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert that a lot of people thinks he said
Speaker 1: it what a lot of people thinks Rudy Gobert reacted. Again,
Speaker 1: it's not up to Kyle Anderson how Rudy Gobert reacts,
Speaker 1: not saying Rudy Gobert wasn't wrong, you're in the game,
Speaker 1: bunch of your teammate, all of that. But Rudy Gobert
Speaker 1: did react to some things that Kyle Anderson said, and
Speaker 1: it's not really up to you what his reaction is.
Speaker 1: So that's one thing I personally think Rudy Gobert is
Speaker 1: a little on the softer side myself. He gained a
Speaker 1: little respect from me because he stood up for himself.
Speaker 1: I've never really seen the guy stand up for him,
Speaker 1: so didn't really know if the guy was capable of
Speaker 1: standing up for himself. He stood up for himself a bit, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: doesn't really work. Taken from me, I know how that goes,
Speaker 1: doesn't quite work in that environment, But I do understand
Speaker 1: the thinking. I definitely understand the mindset. Definitely not going
Speaker 1: to get up here and act like I don't understand
Speaker 1: the mindset one percent understand the mindset. Like I said,
Speaker 1: didn't quite know that Rudy Gobert had the mindset, but
Speaker 1: I do understand the mindset. Everyone is very easy to
Speaker 1: get up here and say you don't do this, you
Speaker 1: don't do that, you don't do this. It's always easy
Speaker 1: to say that until you're in a situation, and then
Speaker 1: in that situation you make a split second decision. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's the right decision, sometimes it's the wrong decision. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: for Rudy Gobert, it was the wrong decision. Isn't the
Speaker 1: wrong decision morally, that's for you to decide. It depends
Speaker 1: on what your morals are. But in a team set
Speaker 1: and you're playing with a team, it's the wrong decision.
Speaker 1: Doesn't really necessarily give you a pass to just disrespect guys,
Speaker 1: because you know, we talk about team settings and this
Speaker 1: that another. You can't have it both ways. You can't say, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a team, but guys can just disrespect You
Speaker 1: can't do that either. So it's unfortunate, and you know,
Speaker 1: they got something that they're gonna have to figure out there.
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert like I said, he showed me aside that
Speaker 1: he would stick up for himself that I just didn't
Speaker 1: know was there. I've never really quite seen it. But
Speaker 1: he's suspended for one game, so it came out of costs.
Speaker 1: And that's that nine one to condemn anyone for things
Speaker 1: that they do, mistakes that they make. I see a
Speaker 1: lot of guys on TV who used to play guys.
Speaker 1: I saw stack Jack like get on Instagram commented, like, bro,
Speaker 1: some of the things that you've gotten into as a
Speaker 1: player is crazy, like and and guys be so quick
Speaker 1: to like start commented, I think that's nuts. But teachers
Speaker 1: on this is what it is, not really getting into that.
Speaker 1: But it's very easy when you're not in a situation
Speaker 1: to say, oh, that was wrong and you should have
Speaker 1: did this. I'm not that Guy's just not me. As
Speaker 1: far as the matchup goes, Lakers versus Timberwolves tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: I have the Lakers again. You hear the things that
Speaker 1: are going on quite frankly, Rudy Gobert being out may
Speaker 1: actually help the Timberwolves. Nas reed being out actually hurts,
Speaker 1: though hurts that case like a lot, a lot a
Speaker 1: lot that hurts. Jamie McDaniels being out, that hurts. Even
Speaker 1: with those guys in, it'll be a tough game. Here's
Speaker 1: why they're playing the Lakers, who's playing the best basketball
Speaker 1: they've played in years since really the bubble. They're also
Speaker 1: going up against Broun in a playoff setting, which I
Speaker 1: know how that goes. We've all watched it for years,
Speaker 1: but I know how that goes. It's one game, I
Speaker 1: feel like, and so what you have to understand is
Speaker 1: this Broun is going to go into this game and
Speaker 1: figure out exactly what needs to be done, what tempo
Speaker 1: the game needs to be played at, the ins and
Speaker 1: outs of the game, and pick it apart. That's what
Speaker 1: Lebron does in the playoffs setting. It's not many guys
Speaker 1: that can do that, control the entire pace of a game.
Speaker 1: If he needs to play forty eight minutes, he would
Speaker 1: because he would just control the entire pace. And so
Speaker 1: that's going to make it very tough on a young
Speaker 1: Timberwolves team led by a young star Anthony Edwards. Braun
Speaker 1: did the same thing against the Boston Celtics with a
Speaker 1: young Jason Tatum, with a young Marcus Smart, with a
Speaker 1: young Jaylen Brown. Just control the entire pace of the game.
Speaker 1: In game six or seven, they had no answer. It's
Speaker 1: a very hard one to figure out. Quite frankly, I
Speaker 1: don't think the timber Wills figured that out tomorrow. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem that Brin and the Lakers as they're going
Speaker 1: up against a young star who does not care about
Speaker 1: none of that. Anthony Edwards don't care about Brin controlling
Speaker 1: the pace, Anthony Edwards don't care about Lebron being Lebron.
Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards don't care about none of that. Anthony Edwards
Speaker 1: thinks he's as good as Lebron. He may good and
Speaker 1: well one day be because he has that thing now
Speaker 1: Lebron James Grace player ever, so to just casually say
Speaker 1: someone so I'm not saying that, but my point is
Speaker 1: Anthony edwards mindset, along with his ability, God given ability,
Speaker 1: along with what you can see that his work ethic
Speaker 1: is it's going to be a very very very special player.
Speaker 1: And he's just young enough to not even process like,
Speaker 1: I'm going up against Lebron in this moment and this
Speaker 1: moment this means this, He's not even going to process that.
Speaker 1: He's not at that point mentally where he processed that
Speaker 1: what he does process though, is I'm at you. I
Speaker 1: don't care who you are, you're in front of me,
Speaker 1: I'm at you. And so that can be dangerous for
Speaker 1: the Lakers because when a young guy like that is
Speaker 1: just unaware of the moment, that can be dangerous because
Speaker 1: he's just gonna come out there loose and hooping and
Speaker 1: you know, he's not afraid of anything, and he got
Speaker 1: game a lot of games. So Anthony Edwards lack of awareness,
Speaker 1: and I mean that in a good way. I mean
Speaker 1: at what is he twenty two years old, like or
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty two? You're not sitting around like, man,
Speaker 1: this moment is so big and it can mean this.
Speaker 1: You're like, yo, I'm about to go out here and
Speaker 1: do this, this and this, oblivious to what all of
Speaker 1: that can mean. But but totally like into I dribbled
Speaker 1: in the backyard thinking about this moment, right like, this
Speaker 1: is a big moment. I get to play on the
Speaker 1: big stage. I ain't scared of nothing. Totally into that.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily legacy and all of that, and so and
Speaker 1: whereas Lebron you have the legacy, ad you have the legacy,
Speaker 1: it's a different thing. And so that's kind of what
Speaker 1: we're up against tomorrow. I got the Lakers winning that game, especially,
Speaker 1: like I said, with the guys that Minnesota will be missing.
Speaker 1: Got the Lakers taking that one. In our nine ten game,
Speaker 1: we have the New Orleans Pelicans versus the Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: Thunder in New Orleans. OKAC is another one of those
Speaker 1: oblivious teams have not been in this situation going in
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Like, man, what we got to lose? Y'all
Speaker 1: said we was gonna win thirteen games this year. What
Speaker 1: do we have to lose? They're going in with a
Speaker 1: free swing, New Orleans. You supposed to excuse me, you're
Speaker 1: supposed to win. New Orleans was number one seed two
Speaker 1: and a half three months ago in the West. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to win. You dropped one last night that you
Speaker 1: were supposed to go in and not end up in
Speaker 1: the nineteen game. Now New Orleans got to fight the
Speaker 1: uphill battlem I think all the pressure is on New
Speaker 1: Orleans in this game. Shay Gilder's Alexander Young Young j
Speaker 1: Jalen dubbed Williams m Giddy lou Door Big Jaalen Williams
Speaker 1: them guys coming to play, and again they're totally oblivious
Speaker 1: to the moment. Brandon Ingram know the moment. CJ. McCullum
Speaker 1: know the moment. Jonas Valentunas not this moment. The young
Speaker 1: guys in Old Kase, they're totally oblivious to it. And again,
Speaker 1: that can be dangerous. That can be really dangerous. So
Speaker 1: I and looking forward to that game, I think Brandon Williams,
Speaker 1: excuse me, Brandon Ingram has been playing lights out, playing
Speaker 1: some of the best basketball in his career. The X
Speaker 1: factor in Tomorrow's game is going to be Trey Murphy,
Speaker 1: or excuse me, Wednesday's game, it's going to be Trey Murphy.
Speaker 1: Trey Murphy has to have a big game in order
Speaker 1: for New Orleans to win, because, okay, see this playoff time. Now,
Speaker 1: they're going to help out a lot of herb Jones.
Speaker 1: They're gonna make herb Jones beat them, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: try to take away c J or BI. They may
Speaker 1: be able to take one of them away, possibly, but
Speaker 1: you're definitely not taking both of them away. And that's
Speaker 1: where Trey Murphy comes in. Trey Murphy needs to have
Speaker 1: a big game from the wing. I expect Jonas Valichuonas
Speaker 1: to have a big game because OKAC doesn't have much size,
Speaker 1: and so Jonas valicuonas to do what he do. Brandon
Speaker 1: in an Ingram or CJ gonna get off. I definitely
Speaker 1: think Brandon Ingram's gonna get off. CJ could still get off,
Speaker 1: But I feel like in the playoffs, like you have
Speaker 1: to take one of those guys away. And then that's
Speaker 1: where Trey Murphy comes in as the X factor. Always
Speaker 1: rooting for my guy Willie Greene. That's never gonna change.
Speaker 1: But they may be on upset alert. And another reason
Speaker 1: they may be on upset alert it's hard to get
Speaker 1: over this game they just lost. They should have won
Speaker 1: this game against Minnesota pretty easily, and you lose that,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get past that, so that that could
Speaker 1: carry over a bit. So I'm picking OKC for the
Speaker 1: upset on this one. I'm picking ok C for the upset.
Speaker 1: Young oblivious guys going out there just rocking, and they
Speaker 1: coming together too. They got a lot of young talent.
Speaker 1: They're coming out there and they just rocking with nothing
Speaker 1: to lose. Very dangerous spot. Mines New Orleans should have
Speaker 1: never ended up in that spot. I'm taking them in
Speaker 1: the playing game. On the East, we have Miami at
Speaker 1: the seventh seed. We have Atlanta at the eighth seed.
Speaker 1: They're going into Miami. Miami has not quite had the
Speaker 1: year that they expected to have, yet they still ended
Speaker 1: up forty four and thirty eight with the first playing
Speaker 1: game at their home. Atlanta's obviously Trey Young, de John
Speaker 1: t Murray, Quinn Snyder's taken over as head coach. Quinn
Speaker 1: Snyder's a damn good head coach. Eric Sports is a
Speaker 1: damn good head coach as well, So that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a nice little battle amongst the coaches, which really matters
Speaker 1: when you get to the playoffs. But ultimately I got
Speaker 1: Bam and Jimmy getting it done at home verse the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks I have with. Then we have the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bulls versus the Toronto Raptors. The Toronto Raptors being the
Speaker 1: nine seed, they have the home court advantage versus the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls. I ultimately think that makes a difference. But
Speaker 1: in this game, you got Damar going back Toronto, you
Speaker 1: got Zach Lavine headed up there, and just with that
Speaker 1: much guard scoring, they can get tough in the playoffs
Speaker 1: trying to stop that, and so I'm actually going to
Speaker 1: pick Chicago for the upset in Toronto facing off with
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks in Atlanta in the second playing game,
Speaker 1: and with that one, I am going to take Atlanta.
Speaker 1: So it'll be a tough one, but you got two
Speaker 1: guards that can also score home court. I think Atlanta
Speaker 1: gets it done. Hate to pick against my guys DeMar
Speaker 1: and Zach, but you got guys Trey and Dejonta over there,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be a hell of a matchup and
Speaker 1: they're at home. Tray can get hot, Dejonta going to
Speaker 1: get to his spot, just as DeMar is. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good game, and I really feel like it's
Speaker 1: a coin flip. But I'm gonna take Atlanta and that one.
Speaker 1: And moving on, we got the Dubs six seeds facing
Speaker 1: Kings the three seeds. I'm excited about this one. I'm
Speaker 1: excited number one to see my guy Mike Brown turn
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings around like he has. It's beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 1: Dearon Fox d the Draymond Green Show guests, one of
Speaker 1: the Draymond Green Show guests, we had this conversation so
Speaker 1: on you the Fox, So on you to get them
Speaker 1: guys to the playoffs, so on you to become an
Speaker 1: All Star, So on you to do these things. Fox.
Speaker 1: They traded Tyrese Halliburton for you to do these things.
Speaker 1: What did dearon Fox do those things? Came an All star,
Speaker 1: three seed in the West. Got this guy's back, We
Speaker 1: got the team back. It's been so many years, ending
Speaker 1: the longest drought in the NBA for the playoffs or
Speaker 1: missing the playoffs. Congratulations to the Sacramento Kings. That's dope
Speaker 1: to see. Happy for Mike Brown, Happy for Leandro Barbosa,
Speaker 1: Luke lous vet All, Golden State Warriors, guys, Happy for
Speaker 1: those guys. That stops now it's time to go now
Speaker 1: in this matchup, the Kings have the number one offensive
Speaker 1: raiding this year, and I was told, you know how
Speaker 1: true this is. I didn't go do research on them
Speaker 1: because quite frankly, if I'm being honest, I really don't care.
Speaker 1: But I was told they have the highest offensive rating
Speaker 1: in the history of NBA. Is that true? Don't know,
Speaker 1: don't really care because it's my job to stop that.
Speaker 1: So our task to stop that, and that's what you
Speaker 1: have to do in order to win obviously we start
Speaker 1: off on the road, first two games on a road.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this. I am very excited about this
Speaker 1: battle of NorCal the Warriors, and it's been a long
Speaker 1: time since this battle has mattered, if ever, and it
Speaker 1: matters now playoffs. Doesn't get much better than that for us.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I like the fact that we matched up
Speaker 1: with the Kings because it is a short trip. Last year,
Speaker 1: our first round series was in Denver, our second round
Speaker 1: series was in Memphis, Denver altitude two hour flight Memphis,
Speaker 1: five hour flight far Dallas was our third round Conference
Speaker 1: Finals four and a half hour flight far Boston, Finals
Speaker 1: six and a half hour flight, very very very far.
Speaker 1: So to start this this playoff run off with a
Speaker 1: bus ride an hour and five minutes away, I'll take that. Also,
Speaker 1: no dub Nation showing up in waves, baby waves, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that. Let's see if we can
Speaker 1: turn that thing into a home game dub Nation thing
Speaker 1: is gonna be tough, though, because these Sacramento Kings fans
Speaker 1: have been waiting for this for twenty plus years. They
Speaker 1: finally got it. So we'll see how this goes. As
Speaker 1: far as that goes, you know, if dubs are gonna
Speaker 1: you know, dust dumb nation on the flood, I go
Speaker 1: to one of the center. We'll see it'll be much needed.
Speaker 1: It's a really good team. You got Daron Fox was
Speaker 1: growing his own as a point guard, facing off with
Speaker 1: the great Steph Curry at the point guard position. Kevin
Speaker 1: Herder who's coming into his own, facing off against the
Speaker 1: great Clay Thompson. You got you know, Dante Defenceenzo possibly
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins, three spots facing off against a young Keegan Murray.
Speaker 1: You got myself facing off against Harrison Bars, and you
Speaker 1: got eighty twone facing off against some bonus. Some good matchups.
Speaker 1: They got a really good bench, Monk coming off the bench.
Speaker 1: Monk gets to it. Trey Laws has been really good
Speaker 1: off their bench. Davey Mitchell comes in, just a little
Speaker 1: pass all over the place, defensively really good. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough match up. But of course I got
Speaker 1: the Doves taking this one. Why wouldn't I not? Hi
Speaker 1: the Doves taking this one. But it'll be tough. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. You know, you want to try
Speaker 1: to get these games done as flash as you can.
Speaker 1: I would love to get it done. In four, maybe five.
Speaker 1: Very hard to do. I don't care who you playing,
Speaker 1: by the way, whether it's a great team or not,
Speaker 1: so a great team, very hard to do that. But
Speaker 1: that's always ideally what you want to try to do.
Speaker 1: This is a team, a young team that doesn't have
Speaker 1: much playoff experience. You want to try to pounce on
Speaker 1: that right away. You don't want to let them get hope,
Speaker 1: start getting more experienced and start believing. You want to
Speaker 1: start trying to take that. You want to instill doubt
Speaker 1: right away as much as you can instill to doubt immediately,
Speaker 1: and so that has to be our goal going in.
Speaker 1: That will be our goal. I have no doubt that
Speaker 1: we can get that done. Less Bree stus a couple
Speaker 1: of us. These other matchups before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: we have the as I said earlier, we have the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets awaiting until Friday night. Who get who they'll play?
Speaker 1: They will face the winner of the second game of
Speaker 1: the play in, so it'll be the loser of the
Speaker 1: seven eight, winner of the nine ten, whoever wins that
Speaker 1: game on Friday, that's who the Denver Nuggets will get.
Speaker 1: Got the Memphis Grizzlies at the two seed. They are
Speaker 1: waiting and they will know who their opponent is tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: It'll either be the Lakers or Timberwolves. I think we
Speaker 1: see a Memphis Los Angeles Lakers match up in the
Speaker 1: second round, just my opinion. We just talked about three
Speaker 1: to six, and you have the four or five Phoenix
Speaker 1: home seed four number four versus the fifth seed Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Clippers. Phoenix has been rolling with Katie on the floor,
Speaker 1: having lost the game with Katie on the floor, the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Clippers. It feels like a really big year
Speaker 1: for the Clippers in the playoffs, Like it's been years
Speaker 1: now that you've had this team together. They've had some
Speaker 1: unfortunate situations. I saw Patrick Beverley say if they didn't,
Speaker 1: if they if if it wasn't a bubble or something
Speaker 1: like that, they wouldn't want a championship. If I didn't
Speaker 1: get suspended in the game five, I think we would
Speaker 1: have won a championship in twenty sixteen. Quite frankly, no
Speaker 1: one cares. The circumstances are the circumstances, and they have
Speaker 1: not won and they have to win. So fortunately that
Speaker 1: Paul George is out. I don't know if Paul George
Speaker 1: will make it back for this series, but they have
Speaker 1: to win or you may start seeing some changes, so
Speaker 1: that'll be interesting. Obviously, TLU knows what it takes. T
Speaker 1: LU can put a game playing there together and get
Speaker 1: it done. But I am taking the Phoenix Suns in
Speaker 1: that one. I would give you my predictions on the
Speaker 1: other series as they come to Fruition. Don't really know
Speaker 1: who they're gonna be yet, but I am taking the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns. Katie d They them boys ready to go.
Speaker 1: They've been playing well. What you're missing with Paul George
Speaker 1: is not only a score, You're missing another really good
Speaker 1: wing defender that you have and against Book and Kade,
Speaker 1: you need that like that is very important. Chris Paul
Speaker 1: his last game he played and he looked great. Seven
Speaker 1: three pointers, struggle from the three all year. To see
Speaker 1: that going into the playoffs is huge. So yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm the one area that the Clippers do win is
Speaker 1: the depth. Clippers are extremely deep team, so they do
Speaker 1: win in the depth category, which can to help you
Speaker 1: in the series. Like I said, especially that you have
Speaker 1: to lean on that depth with Paul George being out.
Speaker 1: But I think you know with Paul George missing a
Speaker 1: series of Paul George misses the entire series, or even
Speaker 1: a couple of games. A couple of games can change
Speaker 1: the series dramatically. That may be a lot overcome and
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Phoenix Suns at that one. Quickly. We
Speaker 1: will go over to the Eastern Conference. The one seed
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Bucks is obviously waiting. The two seed Boston Celtics
Speaker 1: is obviously waiting, obviously waiting. The three seed Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: six Ers takes on the six seed Brooklyn Nets. This
Speaker 1: is an interesting one. Philadelphia drafted Mike cal Bridges, who
Speaker 1: has playing at insane level, trading him immediately, That's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great matchup. Michael has something to prove, went
Speaker 1: to school in Philly from those parts got traded on.
Speaker 1: He got something to prove. Ultimately, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: enough to overcome MVP Joel and B, James Harden, Tyrese, Maxie,
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers and the Philadelphia seventy six Ers. I think
Speaker 1: MB will be far too much for Nick Clackson. I
Speaker 1: think Nick Clackson is really grown into his own and
Speaker 1: become a good defender. But INB and beat is embat
Speaker 1: and that's what you need. So I think ultimately it'll
Speaker 1: be a lot for Brooklyn Nest to overcome. I think
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nests are in a great position. Though they got picks,
Speaker 1: they got pieces, and they put it together. In spite
Speaker 1: of everything that went on this year, they put it together.
Speaker 1: They got a spot in the playoffs not to play.
Speaker 1: In respect to those guys, I think Philly gets it
Speaker 1: done in five. The four or five match up, we
Speaker 1: got the Calves hosting Knicks. Stephen A stephen Ay got
Speaker 1: a lot riding on this. When stephen A told y'all
Speaker 1: to go get down Ivan Mitchell, y'all didn't go get
Speaker 1: Downovan Mitchell. He ended up in Cleveland. Ironically, you guys
Speaker 1: face off against Cleveland, New York Knicks fans, you face
Speaker 1: off against Cleveland, and they're hosting. It's the first time
Speaker 1: Cleveland has been in the playoffs with all Lebron jameson
Speaker 1: probably thirty years, and they're excited. And trust me, Cleveland
Speaker 1: as a playoff atmosphere is brutal. Thank you for me.
Speaker 1: I've been in there quite a few times. Brutal, super loud,
Speaker 1: and the Knicks are missing Julius Randall Jalen Bronson has
Speaker 1: had an incredible year quickly, It's had an incredible year
Speaker 1: guys across the board. But missing Julius Randall is huge,
Speaker 1: and I don't think he'll be back in time enough
Speaker 1: to affect this series. How he will. Unfortunately, stephen A,
Speaker 1: I got Cleveland winning their first series, says Lebron since
Speaker 1: nineteen and forever ago. So unfortunately, stephen A, Julius gets
Speaker 1: hurt at a bad time, and that's gonna be pretty
Speaker 1: tough to overcome. So that is some of my thoughts
Speaker 1: on these series coming up. We will speak more about
Speaker 1: this as all of these series gets locked in. We
Speaker 1: will also speak more of this week. I will have
Speaker 1: some live reactions for some of these games coming up.
Speaker 1: I'm also considering doing an all NBA team in our
Speaker 1: NBA second team, in our NBA third team, an MVP,
Speaker 1: a Defensive Player of the Year, a six Man of
Speaker 1: the Year, a Most Improved Player, a Coach of the Year.
Speaker 1: That's right, you heard it here first, God damn it,
Speaker 1: I am considering. Screw that, I am doing the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green Show All NBA Teams, NBA Awards right here. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do that because it's I got some stuff I
Speaker 1: need to say, so we're gonna do that. Be looking
Speaker 1: out for that. Also, be looking for some game reactions.
Speaker 1: Until next time. That's a rat from the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: Good time to how these in the back? Sorry these?
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: you see it, don't let us win another fucking championship.